Japan Storms

Typhoon Goni lashed the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa with heavy rains and winds on Monday 24th August.

Wind-gusts of 159 mph, a local record, flipped over cars and toppled utility poles overnight on the remote Japanese island of Ishigaki, near Taiwan, Japanese media reported. A few people were cut by broken windows.

Due to these storms Quantum of the Seas as gone to South Korea this week.

Press Report

At least 75 people have been injured and a 70-year-old man is missing after a powerful typhoon wreaked havoc across southern Japan, causing widespread disruptions to flights and train services, power outages and the evacuation of more than 200,000 households.

Japan Airlines was forced to cancel about 130 flights and All Nippon Airways canceled 100 flights, mainly to and from airports in Kyushu, while some railway services, including bullet trains on the Kyushu and Sanyo shinkansen lines, were suspended temporarily.

Typhoon Goni made landfall near Arao in Kumamoto Prefecture just after 6 a.m. Tuesday 25th August and reached the ocean off Kitakyushu by 10 a.m., the Meteorological Agency said.

Although now moving away from the Japanese archipelago, the typhoon is expected to bring heavy rain to western and eastern Japan through Wednesday 26th August, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, warning of further landslides and flooding.

The 15th typhoon this year prompted the agency to issue landslide warnings for Fukuoka, Saga, Oita and Kagoshima prefectures on Kyushu, Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku and Yamaguchi and Hiroshima prefectures on the Honshu mainland.

The city of Hiroshima, which experienced a deadly landslide last August, issued an evacuation order to some 67,700 residents, the first such order since last year’s disaster.

On Tuesday, some 83,000 households in Fukuoka Prefecture were instructed to evacuate, while evacuation advisories were issued to 22,000 households in Kumamoto, and 130,000 households in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture.